a Moravian connection between Freud and H.D., just as he believed there was a rhyme between the baby that H.D. lost in a flu epidemic in 1915 and the mother who died giving birth to Duncan in 1919--the year H.D. almost died of the flu. Repeatedly in The H.D. Book he quotes her lines:the meanings that words hide;
they are anagrams, cryptograms,
little boxes, conditioned
to hatch butterflies . . .
"The very heightened sense of the relatedness of everything," Duncan wrote, "set poets apart."
from Ange Mlinko: The Nation: Duncan's Divagations: On Robert Duncan and H.D.
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